Multi-Font Printer User Manual

chapter8

DOWNLOADCHARACTERS

Withthisprinteryoucancmatenewcharactersandsymbols,downloadtheir

dot data,andhavethemprintedinplaceofselectedcharactersintheregular

characterset.Charactersthatcanbegeneratedinthiswayrangefromsimple

but useful symbolslike the check mark throughto complexChineseor

Japanesecharacters.

Regularcharactemampermanentlystoredin theprinter’sROM,butchar-

actersyoudesignaredownloadedandstoti in RAMforuse.

Beforeyoustarttodefineyourowncharacters,youmustsettheEDSswitch

A-2 to “RAM DOWNLOAD”.

Otherwise,the RAM is used to store the inputbuffer, and the download

commandsare ignored.

DEFININGYOUROWNCHARACTERSWITH

STANDARDMODE

Designingand printingyour own charactemhas two requirements:first,

designingtheshapeof thecharacter,calculatingthedatanecessarytomake

the shape,and sendingthat datato the printer,and secondly,sendingthe

commandtoprintthedownloadedcharactersinsteadoftheregularcharacters.

Theream anumberof designconstraintsfor downloadchamcters:

c Thematrixor gridon whichyoudesignthecharactersdependsuponthe

printmodeas shownbelow:

Charactermode

Draftcharacters

LQ picacharacters

LQ elitecharacters

LQ semi-condensed

LQ pmpcmional

Draftsuper/subscript

LQ super/subscript

LQ prop.super/subscript

Horizontal

Vertical